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...pointing out that the players actually use their feet thru the whole game. We live in the greater Chicago area, where almost everyone is a fan of Da Bears, so we are careful to do this only with people we know well enough to know they have a sense of humor. Not being a football fan in Chicago is rather like not being a skier when I lived in Denver.
My husband thinks football should be renamed "passball" - 
Our older son loves sports trivia, and he was the one who told me how much the ball is in play in a 3+ hour NFL broadcast - very little:
Throughout the three-plus hours that you’re watching an NFL game, there is generally just 15-to-20 minutes of live action. The average NFL contest has roughly 18 minutes of actual gameplay, with more than 100 plays jammed into those 18 minutes. This average has increased, as there were just 11 minutes of live action back in 2010, per the Wall Street Journal.
I remember being puzzled when I was a kid, waiting for a football game that my dad would be watching to be over because then it would be my chance for some TV time. He'd say there were 5 minutes left, and I'd come back 20 minutes later, and there'd be 3 minutes left - what the heck!
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